Prof. Assoc. HUNG NGUYEN MANH

According to the lunar calendar (chinese calendar), the 23rd of the last lunar month i.e. the 12th lunar month is the holiday in which the Kitchen God flies to Heaven to attend the Emperor of Jade’s audience.

The Kitchen God’s Petition is a type of folklore, using the lampoonery style and used for lampooning and reflecting the social insecurities that have occurred in the year that has just gone by.

According to an old tale, the story of the Kitchen God involves three persons, two men and a woman.

The Genius of the kitchen has several names: King of the kitchen, king of the tripod.

He often posted a board with two big Chinese characters “Spring Scrolls” at the hut’s door.

Speaking of ancestral altars, Henri Oger showed us a series of sketches of different kinds of altars suited to the rich and the poor.

The five fruit tray has become a popular motif expressing the practical content, and at the same time, bearing the folk aesthetic value.

In these last days of the year that work was of ever greater significance as it cleaned and dolled up the house to make it ever more pleasant than usual in anticipation of the Lunar New Year Festival.

However, apart from the shared traditions, the people living in Southern Vietnam provinces and in the Central Highlands or the people who had emigrated to Vietnam representing a wide variety of ethnic groups also had many noteworthy traits of their own.